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by euank 12y ago
Amazon did issue a statement: http://www.amazon.com/forum/kindle/?cdForum=Fx1D7SY3BVSESG&c... "When we negotiate with suppliers, we are doing so on behalf of customers. Negotiating for acceptable terms is
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by euank 12y ago
He is talking about the same problem that is discussed in Lockhart's Lament [0]. If you've never read this piece of writing, I encourage you to do so now as it presents our math education system in a wonderful and critical light.
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by euank 12y ago
Dropbox is a bad option if you intend to share it with too many people; pdfs are often large enough you'll get the "This account is generating too much traffic! Try back later" pretty quickly. Dropbox is great for sharing wit
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by euank 12y ago
Yeah, the HEAD or GET should return a 404 on not existence; however, the HEAD also won't return data which is the point. GET implies that you have need of the returned data (presumably all the properties of that person). GET is for &qu
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by euank 12y ago
That he has it or can get it, yes. Even if he doesn't have it, there are a few dictionaries (/usr/share/dict/words on various popular distros would be a good start) he could try and only guess the probable options i
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by euank 12y ago
I haven't used it in a long time, but I did use it at one point. It's just not as good security and privacy-wise. Using proxies on/off on one profile, as it encourages, results in any tracking cookies seeing both IPs having t
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by euank 12y ago
The firefox instances have completely different processes, settings, etc. Everything. Chrome, unless I'm mistaken, does not go that far. For example, one of my main uses of multiple-profiles is that I have a different profile for every
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by euank 12y ago
You can easily use a firefox profile per account rather than a browser per account and end up in roughly the same boat. Just start firefox with "firefox -P" to create a new profile, and run "firefox --no-remote -P" on a
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by euank 12y ago
Firefox has an even more powerful version of this. If you start firefox with the "-P" flag you can choose to create a new profile. You can also pass it an argument (e.g. firefox -P default) to choose one. In this case, the profile
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by euank 12y ago
We need to just get away from remembering passwords. Something like Mozilla Persona would have been great, but since it didn't catch on we already have KeePass (and for mac/linux, keepassx2 alpha works quite well). These cutesy li
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by euank 12y ago
To expound on the other response. A PRNG is only as random as its seed / starting state. Let's say it gets this state from the current time, in milliseconds. Now, let's assume the attacker knows, based on your "Time join
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by euank 12y ago
I've got a possibly naive question about DropletPay. I was under the impression that Apple essentially took 30% of all money that flows through an app. Is there an exception for payment / ecommerce apps? Is there a special agreeme
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by euank 12y ago
I find your assertion that basement hackers never "invent" silly. Heck, Google/Pagerank started in a garage, as the saying goes. The demo you link is amazing and I'm not sure anyone has topped that in or out of a company
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by euank 12y ago
It's not a hack in that it's held together by tape, precarious, or any such thing; it's a hack because it's going around the back of SDL to do the graphics, even though SDL is supposed to do all the graphics for you. Per
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by euank 12y ago
To expound on this comment: SDL1 defaults to fully software rendered output. You can hack in opengl hardware rendering, but it's fairly common for SDL1 games and such to be fully software rendered and run fine. SDL2 in general is hardw
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by euank 12y ago
You will doubtlessly get many opinions on this. It's worth keeping in mind that the "dev time" is a function of existing libraries, internal and external. At any fairly large company (e.g. Google) that has many existing inter
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by euank 12y ago
My issue with Chrome's UI is that it is inflexible. I agree that the content area is important; as such, my firefox displays much more content (while also displaying more useful icons IMO). In Chrome, you take what Google gives you and
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by euank 12y ago
views != plays anyways. Some viewers probably played Gangnam Style dozens of times. It's possible those 15,000 plays came from only 1000 people listening to it 15 times each, thus being comparable to only 1000 youtube views. Basically,
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by euank 12y ago
Why not just ignore the bcrypt portion? "Intuitively" it seems to me like you could just un-concatonate the two strings and guess at them separately, working on whichever you know to be easier.
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by euank 12y ago
Patent law requires something to be "non-obvious". It cannot be a single step away from a previous patent. This patent would count as prior art for such an obvious change, and as such the patent you describe would not be valid or
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by euank 12y ago
On the contrary, I'm glad they aren't throwing money at this. Throwing money at things sets a precedent; if they let things run as they are now, it's quite possible that the bill will fail (like SOPA did) due to public outrag
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by euank 12y ago
Fyi, "3/3 = 1" is true as well, which you seem to be indicating is not the case. 3/3 does not approach 1; it is exactly 1. In fact, the idea of "approaches" cannot happen with just rational numbers. You need
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by euank 12y ago
codedicks is an obvious parody. In fact, it only has two pages, no real content. Just try to click "Sign Up" or "Log In". You can't. The videos and education don't exist.
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by euank 12y ago
Not at all. Samsung's argument is not that the patent can't be litigated because it's not in use (in fact they state the opposite). They're merely claiming that they couldn't have "copied the feature" from
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by euank 12y ago
I run my own firefox sync server, and have since it was introduced. It's working fine for the current version of sync. There's a rather helpful guide for setting it up and there were a handful of alternative server implementations
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by euank 12y ago
It appears that you failed to read the data correctly. He says that 66% of the Gemfiles examined contained any vulnerability and 13% of them contained a 5+ issue. That doesn't even mean an exploit btw. Some of those gems might be in
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by euank 12y ago
The problem with "patenting an algorithm" is that it's "not allowed" by the rules of patents. You cannot patent laws of nature, like math (not that that stopped everyone [0]). Algorithms are purely mathematical cons
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by euank 12y ago
Amazon Web Services was explicitly listed in the group of companies at the bottom that did not get notification.
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by euank 12y ago
No, I had no clue that was the case! That's pretty reassuring to know. It still doesn't change that my confidence in the Hyperviser has been shaken a little, but I trust this more knowing that, and I do think the premise of Qubes
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by euank 12y ago
I don't see how that follows or relates; chrome's sandboxes are definitely not VMs... VMs are in general better understood and far better isolated. Can you expound on that comment?

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